The Revolutionary Resonance of Praxis: Zapatismo as Public Pedagogy

The Revolutionary Resonance of Praxis: Zapatismo as Public Pedagogy

Mediático is delighted to point its readers in the direction of a new entry today at its REFRAME sister blog Re.Framing Activism in which James Anderson, Ph.D student in Mass Communications and Media Arts at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, explores the pedagogical and media practices of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

A little over 20 years ago, at the dawn of the New Year in 1994, when the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (the Zapatista National Liberation Army; EZLN) of Chiapas, Mexico, yelled “¡Ya Basta! (Enough!) in response to the ceaseless capital accumulation wrought by the 500-year-old capitalist world economy. [Read more]